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USCGC TANEY high and dry at the US Coast Guard Yard Curtis Bay, MD in March 2003
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 On July 7, 2017, the National Park Service announced the recipients of its 2016 Maritime Heritage Grant programs. Of the 27 awardees across the nation, the USCGC TANEY Hull Preservation Project received the third largest grant with $152,389 awarded to the project.
"Protecting our nation's maritime history is an important part of the National Park Service's mission to share America's story," said Acting National Park Service Director Michael T. Reynolds. "These grants will support efforts to conserve important parts of our maritime history and educate students of all ages."
The scope of the project will include dry docking the vessel along with cleaning, stabilizing and repairing the underwater hull body, the application of new protective coatings, and the renewal of sacrificial anodes on the hull. USCGC TANEY was last dry docked in 2003 for a similar project funded by a "Save America's Treasure's Grant". Historic Ships in Baltimore will be working to raise the 1:1 match required by the Maritime Heritage Grant in the form of cash and in-kind donations of materials and labor. Donate to the TANEY hull preservation project.
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USS CONSTELLATION Cup Regatta & Deck Party
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Saturday, October 14th
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Join us for a fun filled day both on and off the water & support restoration and education programs an Historic Ships in Baltimore.
The day kicks off with the Annual
USS
CONSTELLATION Cup
Sailboat Regatta
in Baltimore Harbor.
This friendly race is open to all sailboats and will feature full keel, fin keel and spinnaker classes. Prizes will be awarded for the top finisher in each class. Race registration is open! Thank you to our friends at Baltimore City Yacht Association for hosting the registration site. For more race information, including course maps and scratch sheets visit ussconstellationcup.org.
The fun continues into the night with the
USS CONSTELLATION Cup Deck Party
onboard USS CONSTELLATION f
rom 6 PM - 9 PM.
Enjoy an all-inclusive menu from Sascha's Catering, with shucked oyster from Faidley Seafood, beer from Heavy Seas Brewery, wine, signature drinks and more. Rock out to
Tumblehome
, take a guided tour of CONSTELLATION
, watch a cannon firing, and enter the raffle to win
great prizes like a week's stay in Costa Rica!
Not a sailor? Not a problem; you can still party like one! The Deck Party is open to everyone; racers, race supporters, and anyone who likes food, fun and supporting Historic Ships in Baltimore!
All-Inclusive Tickets are On Sale Now!
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Adult
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Aged 21 and up
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$65 |
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Teen
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Aged 15 to 20
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Youth
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Aged 6 to 14
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Child
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Aged 5 and Under
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Free
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| Early Bird - 20% off (ends Oct 7) |
Museum Members receive at 20% of Event Tickets anytime
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Jim Kitchen, seated at center, surrounded by WWII USCGC TANEY crew, descendants and friends
7 December 2015 |
On August 21, 2017, Historic Ships in Baltimore lost a great friend and supporter - World War II veteran James H. Kitchen of Fresno, California. Jim passed away in the hospital following a very short illness.
Few World War II veterans were as active in maintaining their ties with Historic Ships in Baltimore over the past decade as Jim Kitchen, especially considering his physical distance. Despite living in central California, he took 5 opportunities to travel to Baltimore between 2006 and 2015. The first such trip was 30-day cross-country drive to deliver a 22-inch antique wood plane which had once been part of the Carpenter's Shop outfit aboard USCGC TANEY. Later, he organized an effort to create a memorial honoring some 860 WWII Coast Guardsmen who had served aboard the ship between December 1941 and September 1945, the result of which was a large 4'x6' framed plaque which was presented to Historic Ships in Baltimore in 2009.
Born in Oklahoma in 1923, Jim's story is one worthy of what we have come to expect from "the Greatest Generation." He was faced with adversity at age 10 when his father died, prompting him, his mother and his younger brother ultimately to leave the family farm at the height of the Great Depression and migrate to California. Later, when his mother contracted tuberculosis in 1939, the family moved from Orange Cove to Fresno for the climate. While working in a furniture factory early in World War II, Jim decided to follow the example of several of his co-workers and joined the Coast Guard, arriving in Alameda for boot camp on Thanksgiving Day 1942. After a stint at the San Francisco Lifeboat Station, and then a tour of duty as a lighthouse keeper in the Farallon Islands off the California Coast, Jim applied for sea duty and received orders assigning him to the USCGC TANEY as a Seaman in February 1944.
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Historic Ships Honors Tobacco Barn Distillery
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L-R Historic Ships Executive Director Christopher Rowsom, MD Secretary of Commerce R. Michael Gill, and RADM Scott Sanders (Ret.) with the State of Maryland Proclamation.
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In what has come to be an annual rite of summer, Historic Ships in Baltimore hosted more than 120 persons on the evening of June 8, 2017 for "The Captain's Jubilee" - a lighthearted program of socializing, dining and celebration aboard USS CONSTELLATION. This year's special honoree at the event, recognized for supporting Baltimore's historic fleet, was the Tobacco Barn Distillery of Hollywood, Maryland.
The evening began with a spar-deck cocktail hour, after which guests moved below to the gun deck for the formal unveiling of CONSTELLATION's new replica galley stove by HSB Executive Director Chris Rowsom and museum volunteer John Barnard. Following the unveiling, guests returned to the spar deck to enjoy a four-course meal, including selected wines, courtesy of Rouge Fine Catering.
The highlight of the evening was the presentation of the Admiral Royal Ingersoll Award bestowed each year to a company or organization which has supported HSB in notable ways. This year's honoree, Tobacco Barn Distillery, has been helpful to Historic Ships in the creation of its USS CONSTELLATION Rum brand which not only has generated significant monetary support for the museum, but also helped to focus attention on HSB in the media.
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Historic Ships in Baltimore Executive Director Christopher Rowsom, left, with museum volunteer John Barnard who financed the new CONSTELLATION stove
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On Thursday evening June 8, Historic Ships in Baltimore formally unveiled a new galley stove replica aboard USS CONSTELLATION. The unveiling took place as part of HSB's annual "Captain's Jubilee" banquet held on board the ship.
Research for the project began in the spring of 2016 with a trip to USS CONSTITUTION in Boston where HSB Curator Paul Cora surveyed the ship's galley stove and consulted with staff from the museum there. CONSTITUTION'S stove, though somewhat modified over time, was estimated to have been placed aboard the ship as early as the 1870s and so a study of it seemed a logical starting point - especially since no other US Navy sailing vessels exist. By concentrating on the features evident in CONSTITUTION's stove that also appear in John Lenthall's 1853 plans for the sloop-of-war CONSTELLATION, a design was arrived at which is likely to be very close in appearance to the galley stove that equipped her in Civil War era. Additionally, HSB consulted photographic evidence from US Navy ships in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as documents such patent records for ship's stoves and the 1854 US Navy Table of Allowances to finalize the features of the replica.
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WWI Coast Guardsman Awarded Purple Heart
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| Purple Heart Ceremony speakers are: Mr. Vincent Warren Woodland (seated center), Mr. Robert L. Finn (seated right), and RADM Meredith L. Austin,USCG, Commander Fifth Coast Guard District (at podium). |
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On June 6, 2017 more than 50 invited guests, US Coast Guard officials and State of Maryland dignitaries gathered aboard USCGC TANEY in Baltimore Harbor to pay tribute to a Coast Guardsman who lost his life in World War I. Seaman Francis Leroy Wilkes was among those who lost their lives aboard USCGC TAMPA in 1918. At the June 6 ceremony on board CGC TANEY, Seaman Wilkes was posthumously awarded the Purple Heart Medal, which was accepted on his behalf by several relatives who are citizens of Baltimore.
The Coast Guard Cutter TAMPA, which had been commissioned in 1912 at what is today the US Coast Guard Yard, Curtis Bay, had originally been christened as the US Revenue Cutter MIAMI. In 1916, a year after the Revenue Cutter Service became the Coast Guard, the ship was renamed TAMPA. In 1917, after the United States joined the Allied powers in World War I, CGC TAMPA began her wartime service operating along with US Navy ships on Atlantic convoy duty against German U-boats. Between July 1917 and September 1918, she escorted eighteen convoys between Gibraltar and southern England. On September 26, 1918, while transiting the Bristol Channel on her own, she was struck by a torpedo fired from the German submarine UB-91 and sank with all hands. The 115 American personnel (111 Coast Guard and 4 US Navy) who perished aboard TAMPA, constitute the United States' largest single naval loss during World War I and the TAMPA monument is a central feature at Arlington National Cemetery's Coast Guard Hill.
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USS MUSKEGET as she appeared on 17 February 1942 (courtesy of US Naval History and Heritage Command) |
In June 2017, HSB was host to a memorial ceremony honoring the CGC TAMPA lost with all hands in World War I. Here, HSB educator Austin Sullivan recounts the story of a Coast Guard cutter lost to a U-Boat in World War II.
The vast Atlantic has become home to thousands of shipwrecks over the ages, and the depths and perils of undersea exploration make discovering all wrecks impossible. Famous wrecks have been found; there is no one in the western hemisphere and beyond that has not heard of Titanic, and yet for every ship found there are untold others lost in the dark abyss. One of these ships lost in the
cruel Atlantic hailed from the docks of Baltimore.
The steamship CORNISH was built by Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point Shipyard in 1923 and was delivered to the Eastern Steamship Company operating out of Boston, Massachusetts. SS CORNISH operated as a typical small steamer of her time, with a displacement of less than 2,000 tons. Her merchant service was unremarkable, save for a few notable incidents. She collided with a tug on New York's East River in early March 1926, the force being enough to break the tug captain's arm as he struck the helm.
Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, CORNISH found herself tied up in New York as seamen from Eastern Steamship Lines launched a strike over union disputes. Despite this, it seemed that the steamer was bound for a typical life of her class. As the storm of war washed over the world, however, that life soon changed.
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Upcoming Events
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Join us for a fun filled day both on and off the water. The day kicks off with the Annual USS CONSTELLATION
Sailboat Regatta in Baltimore Harbor and culminates in the Historic Ships' Deck Party fundraiser from 6 PM - 9 PM. Reservations required, additional fee.
"CONSTELLATION History Tour" by John Barnard
Saturdays - October 21st & November 4th; 2:00 PM
Take a walking tour through 100 years of naval service! Historian and friend of the ship, John Barnard, leads a
n hour-long tour that focuses on many of the social changes that took place aboard USS CONSTELLATION during her century of service. Come aboard and take a close look at the real Old Navy, and see the difference time makes. This presentation is open to all visitors and is included with regular admission. No reservations are required.
Saturday, October 28th; 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM: Ship's Company Civil War Interpretation on USS CONSTELLATION
USS CONSTELLATION's own Ship's Company of volunteer sailors and marines come aboard to provide a unique and fascinating view of service at sea. Presentations and hands-on activities throughout the day punctuate the daily routine and focus on day-to-day shipboard life in Mr. Lincoln's Navy.
Join the board and staff of Historic Ships in Baltimore in marking the anniversary of the December 1941 Japanese Attack on Hawaii and honoring those who served during WWII. The Pearl Harbor Memorial Ceremony, will be held on board the US Coast Guard Cutter Taney, and is open to the public at no cost.
Holiday Closures - Historic Ship in Baltimore will be closed on the following days:
Thursday, November 23rd (Thanksgiving)
Sunday & Monday, December 24th & 25th (Christmas Eve & Christmas Day)
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Thank you to all of our loyal museum members & supporters!
The work of Historic Ships
in Baltimore would not be possible without the
support of generous individuals, families, companies and foundations.
Not a member or donor?
We hope that you will become one today and help to ensure that the Historic Ships Fleet and Lighthouse are available as educational resources for generations to come.
Your support helps to keep the ships afloat!
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